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OpenMausBot Turns AI Coding Agents Into Chat Contacts in Open-Source Release

October 30, 2026 at 22:45 EDT

AI Agents
Open Source

OpenMausBot, an open-source project, lets users manage AI agents as contacts in a chat app, with each bot backed by a Claude, Codex, or Grok command-line (CLI) agent.

Open-source release · macOS desktop app

OpenMausBot turns command-line AI agents into chat contacts

Each bot wraps a Claude, Codex, or Grok CLI agent with its own personality, model, cloud computer, and connected apps, and runs on subscriptions users already hold.

8.5K

GitHub stars on the repository

899

Stars added on the day of release

CLI agent backends: Claude, Codex, Grok

Desktop app included, for macOS

Total stars vs. one day's gain

Each block represents 100 stars. Scale is approximate.

8.5K

Total stars
(85 blocks)

899

Added on release day
(about 9 blocks)

The one-day gain is roughly a tenth of the total. It signals early developer interest, not production adoption.

How a message reaches an agent

Flow as described in the release.

1. Chat contact

A bot with its own personality, model choice, cloud computer, and connected apps

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